Posts Made By: Matthew Michota

Does anybody have any experience with these?  Im looking to upgrade from my skyguider pro to a proper go to, I'm looking to spend in the 1000 dollar range.  I've read some good things about them, people running 8in SCTs on them and getting sub arc second guiding accuracy.   I also really like my skyguider alot as far as how well it functions, and am impressed with ioptron so far.  I'm looking for something nearly as portable as I have to travel to any reasonably dark skies, and fitting my AP stuff, a 10in dobsonian and other astronomy stuff in my little Tacoma is hard as it is,  hence why I'm considering these mounts.    If anybody has any personal experience with them and wants to give me a yay or nay before I pull the trigger and feel the wrath of my gf that'd be great.

If your looking to get a telescope to get laid, your in the wrong hobby bro lol. Although, just having a nice functional telescope and having chicks look through it usually impresses them in my experience.      But what's going to to be more impressive is if you have a passion for something, maybe astronomy.    Trust me, no girl will be impressed with a telescope shaped decoration over one you could show them saturn's rings or the orion nebula in.     A celestron ambassador will sort of give you both, but that's out of your price range,. My recommendation would be to just get a 6 in dobsonian or similar that gives you the best view for your money, that's easy to point and find shit with, even if it doesn't look as cool, then take that and her out on a nice clear night with a star chart, (learn the night sky a bit and some of the showpiece objects beforehand) a bottle of wine, pack a fatty bowl, and show her the universe.    She'll be more impressed with that then some hokey decoration that barely functions and you have no idea how to use and gives shit views if you tried.